ECHO 8 LIGHTER CAMERA
Manufacturer : Suzuki Optical Company Japan
Dates : 1951-1956.
Cigarette –lighter camera .
Designed to look like a Zippo lighter .
The Echo 8 1st Version is only 41 mm x55 mm x 14 mm .
It has a fixed-focus Echor Anastigmat 15mm lens with waterhouse stops at f/3.5, f/5.6 and f8.0 and has B (bulb) and I (1/50 sec.) shutter settings.
The 8mm film strip, split 16mm film, is 8 inches long and the camera produced 20 exposures, with a 6x6mm image format.This one is gold colored, bought the camera like you see on the foto’s .But have not found out if they original also where sold in this gold color.have seen a few foto’s of other examples also in gold color.